Galatians Study: Chapter 2-Defending the Gospel

 Galatians: Chapter 2

Paul: reminds the church who he was before Jesus and after in relationship with Jesus

-False gospel is works based salvation

-Purpose of church: build the ministry, show mercy/kindness/love, face persecution together, confront evil, bring Jesus into the public square

***relationships between Paul, apostles, and disciples imperfect, but hold each other accountable to keep within Jesus’ gospel and not stray to man’s laws 

“But if, in seeking to be justified in Christ, we Jews find ourselves also among the sinners, doesn’t that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not!” (Galatians 2:17).

-not justified by works or by the law

-justified by by belief in Christ through faith

- it is a simple act of belief through grace you are saved 

Reminders:

-Jesus ate with sinners

-Jesus was of no sin

-Jesus said you can’t build again what I have destroyed (any other way to Christ-Jesus is the only way)

VS. 19

-law is not the way to life

-law is way to death

-law not intended to save

-law shows us we need a savior

-we need the 10 commandments, nothing wrong with laws as it reflects God’s character

“Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds” (John 12:24).

-Christ lives in me by faith

-Christ removes living a life in the flesh

-we are ambassadors of Christ

-He loved me so much He gave His life for me

VS. 21

-don’t set aside the grace of God

-Jesus didn’t die in vain

-Jesus secured our salvation

Galatians Study: Chapter 1-The truth of the gospel of grace is under attack

Galatians: Chapter 1

-truth of gospel of grace was under attack 

-Paul has a sense of urgency as there was a crisis within the church

-referred to as the “fighting epistle”

-Paul defends and contends for faith against the diluted gospel of grace

-Paul gives to directives to live in freedom in Christ and not be bound to bondage

Galatians 1: 4

“Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,  who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,  to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.”

Authority given to apostles-

“built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone” (Ephesians 2:20).

-Paul’s purpose was to speak to church falling away from grace so he reminds the church of what grace did for us

Galatians 1:6 

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— 7 which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ

-Paul warns the church that we do not co-exist with evil as the darkness distorts and perverts the gospel of Christ

Galatians 1:10

“Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.”

-Paul: Do not add to the gospel

-Paul: address false preachers/teachers

-Paul: Do not teach convoluted or diluted or add to the gospel

***Liberty = all you can do in the name of Jesus is restrained freedom from the worldview

Reminder: Paul was transformed from accuser of Jesus to being called by Jesus through grace. He experienced salvation:

“As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” “Who are you, Lord?” Saul asked. “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,” he replied.“Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do” (Acts 9: 3-6_

Paul: after transformation, evangelized in his hometown for 7 years

Paul: preached the faith of redemption, the faith he had once tried to destroy

Identity in Crisis: Trans Personal Experiences Challenge the Gender Euphoria

 Is Western culture allowing itself to be destroyed in the name of "tolerance"? The objective truths that society has relied on for thousands of years are being questioned into obscurity. The real-world consequences have been devastating. Children are being surgically mutilated under the guise of "gender-affirming care."

I think the one thing that stood out to me when I listened to the personal stories is that they wished they had more time to think things through. They wanted to feel better about themselves and just wanted some miracle cure and transitioning was put in front of them as a quick and easy process to fix all their mental health issues. It was the great fix it fast that teens want, but do not see the consequences of the future. 

Trans Kids: The Medical Scandal

Detransitioner’s story is hard to listen to (like so many). Not only regret, but Trans surgery experiences are also necessary to hear about from personal experiences. 

Things to think about as you listen to their personal accounts:

Mental health struggles when trying to find their identity

Stop being rushed into life-altering decisions 

Regrets but the damage is life-long-no reversing physically from the altercations

She cannot regrow her breasts (Cristina Hineman)

Out of Pocket Surgeries-no therapy required (Hineman story)

What happens when I change my mind and stop the transition? No one(doctors) knows the outcomes. (Hineman story)

What happens if bottom surgery doesn’t work? (Ivy Story)

What about the medical bills no one is talking about? Gender-Affirming care is not free!

Are young people being experimented on? (Brianna Ivy story-pretty powerful)

Cristina’s points:

She was able to walk into a clinic and get hormones on the same day, BEFORE she’d spoken to the ‘experts’. 

She found binding extremely painful and it has caused permanent damage and pain.

Testosterone gave her a great deal of unwanted body hair growth and something not many detransitioners talk publicly about is ‘bottom growth’ (clitoral growth). 

The forms she signed were very basic, not giving nearly enough detail to give informed consent. 

Issues such as liver damage and liver cancer were not disclosed and there was no focus on sterility.

She was very fortunate that she wasn’t on testosterone long enough to significantly lower her voice or develop strong male pattern facial hair growth.

This girl was very much influenced by peers and online.

Please watch. This is very real and raw.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-mDoHvM-_F/…

I am just a castrated male now : Ritchie Herron’s story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk7NX7iPr9k

The Shocking Truth About Trans Surgery: Briana Ivy’s Story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhc4hIbLXlM&t=0s

They made my boy a girl: A Parent’s Story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCshcfx4CSc

Trans Kids Medical Scandal

Transgender Surgeries for Minors Based on ‘Low Quality’ Evidence: Leading Medical Group

An Australian inquiry into gender clinics should scrutinise their unreliable treatment guide

Research into trans medicine has been manipulated

As more and more stories are coming to light, it will be hard to deny the travesty of what the trusted adults are doing to hurting children from education to mental health professionals to medical doctors. It is obvious that “do no harm” is no longer the standard.

Lies will be exposed:

Assuming a distinction between sex and gender, it would follow that the way in which someone is born biologically may or may not align with the way in one wishes to express their gender (often referred to as gender identity).

Gender is artificially created and sustained through the repetition of actions that both confer and perpetuate gender expectations.

Simone de Beauvior, a French existentialist philosopher whose work is a foundational precursor to Butler. Beauvoir writes, “One is not born a woman, but rather becomes one.”[5] Gender, then, must by nature be fluid, non-binary, infinitely malleable, and purely a result of societal construction.

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